U.S. History Cornell Notes

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Come gather round people where ever you roam. And admit that the waters around you have grown. And accept it that soon you'll be drenched to the bone. If you're time to you is worth saving. Then you better start swimming or you'll sink like a stone.For the times they are a-changing. - Bob Dylan 1964

Chapter One Section One Cornell Notes: Early Exploration and Settlement
Vocabulary: Exploration, Colonization, Imperialism
  1. How did Spain develop a colonial empire in North America? What was the new Political structure? What was the new Social structure?
  2. What was the new Cultural structure?

Chapter One Section Two Cornell Notes: The English Colonies
Vocabulary: Puritans/Pilgrims, Religious Tolerance
  1. What role did Culture play in the settlement of the New England colonies? Why?
  2. What was the Economy of the Southern and Middle colonies? Provide names the names of states (i.e. Virginia, Maryland, etc)
  3. What was the Social and Economic impact on Native Americans and Africans during this time period?

Chapter One Section Three Cornell Notes: Independence!
Vocabulary: Reparations, Taxation without Representation, Olive Branch of Peace, Sons of Liberty
  1. What British laws and acts (Political Theme) angered the colonists? Why? Be specific.
  2. How did the colonists respond (Social Theme) to the British laws and acts? What was the response by the British King?
  3. Complete a S.P.I.C.E. analysis telling me why the colonists declared independence from King George III?

Chapter One Section Four Cornell Notes: Founding the Nation
Vocabulary: Republicanism, Federalism, Federalists, Antifederalists, Articles of Confederation, Constitutional Convention
  1. What Social and Political ideas influenced the writing of the state constitution? Where and when did the ideas originally come from?
  2. Complete a S.P.I.C.E. analysis of the functions of the Articles of Confederation. What were its strengths? What were its weaknesses?
  3. What domestic and foreign problems did the new nation face (Interaction with People)?
  4. What Political compromises did delegates make in drafting the Constitution, and how was the document ratified?
The Constitution and the Bill of Rights
- See Constitution and Bill of Rights Activity
Chapter Two Section One Cornell Notes: The New Government Takes Shape
Vocabulary: Strict Constitution, Loose Constitution, Alien and Sedition Acts, Louisiana Purchase
  1. What key Social Political decisions did the first administration make?
  2. What Political, Interaction with People and Economic problems did the United States face domestically and internationally in the 1790's? Compare you answer from Chapter One Section Four. What do did you find? Are they similar or different? What does that tell you?
  3. What Cultural issues did John Adams face during his presidency? What economic issues did Thomas Jefferson face during his presidency?
  4. Complete a S.P.I.C.E. analysis on the Louisiana Purchase.
  5. What were the S.P.I.C.E. reasons the United States went to war with England (36) years after declaring independence from them? In your opinion, could war have been avoided?

Chapter Two Section Two Cornell Notes: Growth and Change
Vocabulary: Nationalism, Nativism, Cotton Gin, Monroe Doctrine, Missouri Compromise, Andrew Jackson, Democrats, Trail of Tears, Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman, Fredrick Douglass, Seneca Falls Convention
  1. What Political and Interaction with People changes took place in foreign and domestic policy?
  2. How did Cultural industrialization and Social immigration affect northern society?
  3. What were the Social and Cultural aspects of southern society? How was the southern slave system organized?
  4. What Social and Cultural issues did reformers address in the early to mid 1880's?

Chapter Two Section Three Cornell Notes: Westward Expansion and Sectional Expansion
Vocabulary: Manifest Destiny, Popular Sovereignty, Compromise of 1850, Stephan Douglas, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Republican Party, Abraham Lincoln, Confederate States of America
  1. What were the Social, Cultural and Economic reasons Americans began to settle west of the Mississippi River?
  2. Complete a S.P.I.C.E. analysis on the expansion of slavery.
  3. Complete a S.P.I.C.E. analysis on the secession of the southern states?
Chapter Three Section One: The Union Dissolves
Vocabulary: Crittenden Compromise, Robert E. Lee, Thomas 'Stonewall" Jackson, Fort Sumter
  1. What Political attempts were made to compromise with the secessionists?
  2. What was the Interaction with People theme after the fall of Fort Sumter?
  3. What were the advantages and disadvantages the North and South at the beginning of the Civil War?
  4. Describe the Social and Political ideology Abraham Lincoln has regarding the status of African Americans in the United States before the Civil War begins.

Chapter Three Section Two Cornell Notes: The North and South Face Off
Vocabulary: Conscription, Habeas Corpus, Anaconda Plan, Copperheads
  1. What were the Cultural differences in military strategy between the North and the South as the Civil War began?
  2. What was life like for the soldiers and what was life like at home? What hardships did each side face? What were some of the Social reasons for civilians from each side oppose the war?
  3. What Social injustices occurred which can be compared to the Alien and Sedition Acts during the John Adams presidency? In your opinion, has the U.S. evolved between 1776 and the late 1880's?

Chapter Three Section Three Cornell Notes: Fighting the War
Vocabulary: Ulysses S. Grant, Emancipation Proclamation
  1. How did the Union forces gain control of the Mississippi? How does this victory by the Union help promote the Anaconda Plan from an Economic and Interaction between People viewpoint?
  2. Describe the Social and Political shift in Abraham Lincoln's ideology regarding the status of African Americans in the United States once the war begins? In your opinion, why would it change?

Chapter Three Section Four Cornell Notes: The Final Phase
Vocabulary: Battle of Gettysburg, Gettysburg Address, William Tecumseh Sherman, Sherman's March to the Sea
  1. How is the Battle of Gettysburg an example of a "war of attrition"?
  2. Describe the Social and Political shift in Abraham Lincoln's ideology regarding the status of African Americans in the United States toward the end of the Civil War? In your opinion, why would it change?
  3. Describe how the Civil War ended? Which two individuals came together to discuss the terms of surrender? What was their relationship at the beginning of the war vs. their relationship at the end of the war?
Chapter Four Section One Cornell Notes: Presidential Reconstruction
Vocabulary: Reconstruction, John Wilkes Booth, Andrew Johnson, 13th Amendment
  1. Complete a S.P.I.C.E. analysis on the hopes and expectations African Americans had once the Civil War ended.
  2. How did President Lincoln and Congress have Social, Political and Cultural differences in their plans for Reconstruction?
  3. How did President Johnson's programs Socially, Politically and Culturally benefit former Confederate states?

Chapter Four Section Two Cornell Notes: Congressional Reconstruction
Vocabulary: Frederick Douglas, Freedman's Bureau, Civil Rights Act of 1866, 14th Amendment, 15th Amendment
  1. What Social and Political issues divided Republicans during the early Reconstruction era?
  2. Why did the two different Social groups, moderates and Radical Republicans, join Political forces to aid African Americans? What did they accomplish?
  3. What were the Cultural and Political reasons Andrew Johnson was impeached? Why did the Senate not remove him from office? See notes from the "Constitution and Bill of Rights".
  4. What was the Political impact of African Americans in the election of 1868? What was the Cultural response of the United States to the election of 1868?

Chapter Four Section Three Cornell Notes: Reconstruction in the South
Vocabulary: Civil Rights Act of 1873, Compromise of 1877
  1. What Social attempts did African Americans make to improve their lives during the Reconstruction Era?
  2. What Political reforms did the Republican government enact?
  3. What was the Ku Klux Klan? What impact did they have?
  4. What caused Reconstruction to end?

Chapter Four Section Four Cornell Notes: The New South
Vocabulary: Sharecropping, Segregation, Jim Crow Laws, Plessey vs. Ferguson, Booker T. Washington
  1. What was the Economic drawback to the sharecropping system?
  2. Complete a S.P.I.C.E. analysis on the impacts of the Jim Crow Laws and Plessey vs. Ferguson.
  3. How did African Americans attempt to improve their Economic situation after Reconstruction?
Chapter Five Section One Cornell Notes: War in the West
Vocabulary: Bureau of Indian Affairs, Sand Creek Massacre, Battle of Little Bighorn, Massacre at Wounded Knee, Dawes General Allotment Act, Assimilation
  1. Complete a S.P.I.C.E. analysis on the relationship between American Indians and the United States government/citizens.

Chapter Five Section Two Cornell Notes: Western Farmers
Vocabulary: Manifest Destiny
  1. Complete a S.P.I.C.E. analysis on "Manifest Destiny".

Chapter Five Section Three Cornell Notes: The Cattle Boom
Vocabulary: None
  1. How is the United States growing Economically and Socially?

Chapter Five Section Four Cornell Notes: The Mining Boom
Vocabulary: None
  1. How is the United States growing Economically and Socially?
Chapter Six Section One Cornell Notes: The Age of Invention
Vocabulary: None
  1. How is the United States growing Culturally and Socially?

Chapter Six Section Two Cornell Notes: The Rise of Big Business
Vocabulary: None
  1. How is the United States growing Culturally and Socially? What is the impact on the U.S. Political system?

Chapter Six Section Three Cornell Notes: Labor Strives to Organize
Vocabulary: None
  1. How is the United States growing Socially and Economically?